Eric Johnson Quotes
James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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It is only when the partisan shouting stops that we can hear each other's voices and concerns.
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We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
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There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.
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We've written something like 900 songs in all.
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I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
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I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.
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Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts.
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James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.
